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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV AMARANTH AND BOIS SATINE ORMOLU MOUNTED ENCOIGNURES ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-PIERRE LATZ MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER of serpentine form, with Rococo mounts with scrolling leaves, flowers, rocaille and with a bird's wing cartouche, each with a fossilised peach marble top with a moulded edge, above a frieze drawer and a pair of cupboard doors, enclosing a shelf, on scroll feet, stamped 'L. Boudin JME', with printed paper labels numbered '11' and '12, with later veneers (2) 94.2cm high, 84.7cm wide, 86.5cm wide Provenance Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Ante-Room to the Lawrence Room, Halton House, Buckinghamshire Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) The Trustees of Exbury House Literature Rothschild Archive Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of 'The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring'. 1918. Listed as 'A pair of Louis XV encoigneurs, veneered with tulip and kingwood and mounted with ormolu borders chased with scroll work and wings, surmounted by veined pink marble slabs, £150.0.0.'' Catalogue Note Jean-Pierre Latz (French c.1691-1754) was born in Cologne and settled in Paris from 1719 as an ebeniste. He married Marie-Madeleine Signet in 1739, the daughter of a prosperous property developer. Not long after, before 1741, Latz was given a royal warrant to practice his profession freely without becoming a master. The encoignures produced by Latz are decorated in a similar style, usually of bombe form, with two hinged doors and an apron which forms a third foot at the front, mounted with highly contorted bronze mounts, with stylized bird's wings and flower and leaf designs. There are only a couple of pairs stamped by Latz but many more can be attributed to him based on their characteristics. Latz died in 1754 and as he didn't have a male heir, so his widow carried on the workshop with the Royal warrant until her own death in 1756 after which the workshop was closed and the work and name of Latz fell into obscurity. It wasn't until the 20th century that his achievements were recognised. This pair of encoignures is stamped 'Boudin' for Leonard Boudin (French 1735-1807) who originally started as an independent craftsman but became a retailer of furniture before 1775. Boudin regularly stamped the pieces he sold, even if they already had maker's stamps on them. Literature See Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIIIe siècle - Dictionnaire des Ebenistes et des Menuisiers, pp.484-485 for similar examples and Alexandre Pradere, French Furniture Makers, The Art of the Ebeniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, p.157 for a similar pair of encoignures. Read more »